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Version 5.7 has been released on Monday, December 12^th 2016. The newest release is 5.7.1 which as been released on Monday, January 23^rd 2017. This version is currently supported.

Changes

Release 5.7.0

• Documentation: The Turbostat plugin section has been improved. Thanks to Florian Forster
• Documentation: The semantics of the TypesDB option have been improved. Thanks to Florian Forster.
• collectd: A generic interface for parsing the text protocol has been added. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1749
• collectd: Threads now get named, making them easier to track using tools such as top, ps, etc. Thanks to Manuel Luis Sanmartín Rozada and Marc Fournier. #547
• AMQP plugin, Write Graphite plugin, Write Kafka plugin: The new [Graphite]PreserveSeparator option allows retaining the default dot separator rather than escaping it. Thanks to Florian Forster. #419
• Battery plugin: A StateFS backend for gathering statistics has been added. Thanks to Rinigus. #1795
• CPU plugin: CPU aggregation on AIX was fixed. Thanks to Chao Yang. #1957
• Collectd::Unixsock: Fractional seconds support has been made more robust. Thanks to Matthias Bethke. #2052
• DPDKStat plugin: This new plugin collects DPDK interface statistics. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan, Harry van Haaren, Taras Chornyi and Kim Jones. #1649
• gRPC plugin: The DispatchValues option has been renamed to PutValues. Thanks to Florian Forster.
• HDDTemp plugin: The 32 devices limit has been removed. Thanks to Benjamin Gilbert. #631
• Hugepages plugin: This new plugin reports the number of used and free hugepages on Linux. Thanks to Jaroslav Safka, Maryam Tahhan, Kim Jones and Florian Forster. #1799
• Intel RDT plugin: This new plugin collects statistics exposed by Intel's Resource Director Technology . Thanks to SerhiyX. #1970
• memcached plugin: The new Address option allows connecting to a different server than specified by the Host option. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1975
• nginx plugin: Support for reporting failed connections has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1609
• Perl plugin: Significant internal reworking has been made. The new RegisterLegacyFlush option has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1731
• PostgreSQL plugin: Timestamps are now RFC 3339-formatted local time. Thanks to Igor Peshansky and Dave Cunningham. #1918
• Processes plugin: Internal performance improvements have been made. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack. #1980, #1981
• RRDCacheD plugin: The plugin now tries to reconnect upon failed operations. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #1959
• SpamAssassin: The plugin can now run in Perl's "tainted mode" (-T). Thanks to Akos Vandra. #1962
• Tail plugin: Support for calculating latency distribution of matching values has been added. Thanks to Pavel Rochnyack and Florian Forster. #1700
• Tail plugin: The new GaugePersist option has been added. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2015
• Target:Set, Target:Replace, Match:RegEx: MetaData support has been added . Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1922, #1923, #1930
• turbostat plugin: The new LogicalCoreNames option allows switching to per-core naming rather than per-CPU. Thanks to Brock Johnson. #2056
• virt plugin: The new BlockDeviceFormat and BlockDeviceFormatBasename options help controlling the names reported for block-device metrics. Thanks to Deyan Chepishev. #2004
• Write Graphite plugin: A new DropDuplicateFields option has been added. Thanks to Michael Leinartas. #1915
• Write Kafka plugin: The Key Random setting has been reintroduced. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1977
• Write Log plugin: Support for formatting output in JSON has been added, using the new Format configuration option. Thanks to Igor Peshansky. #1924
• Write Prometheus plugin: This new plugin publishes values using an embedded HTTP server, in a format compatible with Prometheus' collectd_exporter. Thanks to Florian Forster. #1967

Release 5.7.1

Released on Monday, January 23^rd 2017.

• collectd: Handling of boolean configuration options has been unified. Thanks to Sebastian Harl. #2083, #2098
• collectd: Reporting of internal statistics has been fixed. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2108
• collectd, various plugins: Bugs and issues reported by scan-build and coverity-scan have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Florian Forster.
• Build system: Parallel build have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof. #2110
• DPDKStat plugin: Portability issues and a double-close bug have been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof and Marc Fournier.
• Intel RDT plugin: A check for the libpqos library version has been added. Thanks to Serhiy Pshyk.
• NetApp plugin: Compilation problems have been corrected. Thanks to Florian Forster. #2120
• Write Prometheus plugin: A memory leak has been fixed. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.

Release 5.7.2

WiP

• Build system: The Notify Email plugin is no longer linked with indirect dependencies. Thanks to Marc Fournier.
• DPDKStat plugin: Error handling during initialization has been improved. Thanks to Ruben Kerkhof.
• DPDKStat plugin: Handling of a number of metrics has been improved, for example rx_q0bytes. Thanks to Przemyslaw Szczerbik.
• MQTT plugin: Invalid symbols in topic names are now replaced and a resource leak has been fixed. Thanks to Denys Fedoryshchenko. #2123
• Intel RDT plugin: Configuration handling has been changed to be more graceful. Thanks to Maryam Tahhan.
• Logfile plugin: If writing to the file fails, print log messages on STDERR instead. Thanks to Marc Fournier.